 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...truth: he forgets his own question in the contrivance of the trap. . . . the Devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape, yea and perhaps Out of my Weakness,...very potent with such Spirits, Abuses me to damn me. . . . (FF.2.2: 1639-43) Moving quickly to his revenge after the mousetrap springs, Hamlet finds Claudius... | |
 | Pasquale Memmolo - European drama - 1995 - 364 pages
...Zweifel ist ihm verdeckender Schutz und Erkenntnisinstrument: "The spirit that I have seen // May be the devil: and the devil hath power // To assume a pleasing...// Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." (n,l). des vom Affekt erfaßten Bassian schließen und über das eigene weitere Vorgehen beschließen.177... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...him to a prudential caution: The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (II.ii.610-15) As I have argued in the text, however, if we simply follow the trajectory of the scene... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...HAMLET (continuing) The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness...damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. He sinks behind the theatre so that his face is level with the stage. Yes! That's it. HAMLET (continuing)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen 555 May be a devil, and the devil hath power T assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my...such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds H0 More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Exit.... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (Exit.) KIMG HEMRY IV— PART I 0y William onaKespeape ACT I, SCEME 3 Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland... | |
 | James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts - Performing Arts - 1999 - 320 pages
...proof that he hesitates to act on the evidence of the ghost itself: The spirit I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. (H.ii) Yet he will trust the dubious evidence of Claudius' inevitably ambiguous reaction to the play?... | |
 | Gary Banham, Charlie Blake - Philosophy - 2000 - 242 pages
...where at the close of Act 2, scene 2, Hamlet himself states: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing...me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play s the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Here we see the devil himself suspected... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...suspicions return: The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T'assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness...very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.587-92) The purpose of staging The Murder of Gonzago (also known as The Mousetrap) is to test... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape - yea, and perhaps Out of...Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. Exit [3.1] Enter KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSINCRANCE, and GUILDENSTERN 2? King And can you by no... | |
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I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have... 
